Adolescent army AWOL Friday
A Fourth Avenue East woman contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report a roving gang of more than a dozen youths between the ages of 12 and 15 who stand in the driveway behind her home and smoke every day. She said they also tease her dogs. Deputies drove by several times but were unable to locate the adolescent army.
A vengeful Willow Drive woman wanted to press harassment charges against a man who put her personal information all over Craigslist.
An observant passerby put a deputy on the trail of a pair of truants sitting on the bridge on Solberg Drive. The deputy was only able to find one of the boys, but he sent the youth to school.
A Stoner Loop resident called with questions about an infant riding on an all-terrain vehicle with an adult.
A 3-year-old wolf/pit bull mix was euthanized after biting its owner on River Bend in Bigfork.
A vehicle with an international plate was seen traveling more than 100 mph on Montana 206 near Columbia Falls.
Deputies had to remove a drunken woman from a train platform on Depot Street in Whitefish so the train could leave. The woman was dropped off at a local motel.
A highly intoxicated woman was dropped off at home after making a spectacle of herself at an East Lakeshore Drive restaurant in Whitefish. The woman was reported as dropping things around the restaurant and bothering other customers.
A tiny thief was apprehended at a South Main Street business when a 7-year-old was caught stealing.
A guest at a resort felt so comfortable after a stay there that he left his gun behind.
Shades of Boston tinted a report made to the Kalispell Police Department of a brown backpack left abandoned at the north side of the intersection of Seventh Avenue West North and West Oregon Street. It turned out to belong to a high school student who may have left it behind while getting on the bus.
Officers were unable to locate a man reportedly walking down U.S. 93 North, dressed in a black body suit and carrying a “pointy object” that may have been a knife or a stick.
A shocked Internet user reported he accidentally accessed someone else’s online banking account while trying to log into his own and wanted to know what he should do.
An employee of a Main Street store requested a man be barred from the premises after the man made sexual remarks to the employee’s mother — the owner of the business.
A woman who shared her concern about a couple of teenagers carrying signs on East Oregon Street that may have been stolen in recent thefts withdrew her statements after the youths walked up to her and asked if she wanted to buy hand-painted signs from the youth organization of which they were part.
More than just irony was at play when an active panhandler was reported as standing in front of the “no panhandling” sign at the intersection of U.S. 93 North and Hutton Ranch Road.
An 18-year-old girl refused medical treatment after suffering possible broken ribs, a swollen left eye and pain in her neck and head after being assaulted on North Meridian Road.
A fight involving a whopping 30 youths was reported on Fourth Avenue West.
A pair of men were arrested after being caught using drugs at the fairgrounds but were later released.
Whitefish Police officers arrested a man on a warrant for violating his rules of release after penning him in a Haugen Heights home. The man was reported to be at the home, being mean to his siblings and possibly withdrawing from drugs. He tried to open a window when he found out law enforcement was on scene, and eventually shut and locked the door. Officers began speaking with him through the window, and he was later safely taken into custody.
A motorist and his passenger managed to escape harm when the driver had a seizure, driving across a median, nearly striking several vehicles then going through a parking lot and onto the grass. The vehicle did not end up hitting anything, and the man eventually came out of his seizure.
A teacher at an East Second Street school gave an officer a break after the officer stopped to deal with several youths shouting obscenities, saying the school would take care of it.